316 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Cantharus subrubiginosus Smith. 



Tritonidea subrubiginosa Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 206, 

 PI. xx., fig. 40 ; Id., Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., xxi., 

 1908, p. 371. 



Pisania bednalli Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soe., 1895, p. 215, PL xiii., 

 fig. 6. 



Tritonidea fusiformis Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xx., 1896, p. 

 219, PI. 6, fig. 1 



From comparison of the types, in the British Museum, of Trito- 

 nidea subrubiginosa Smith, and of Pisania bednalli Sowerby, I find 

 but slight difference, the latter being apparently a geographical 

 race of the former. The Japanese form is a little more coarsely 

 sculptured, and a little larger than the West Australian bednalli. 

 There are two species, reported from Australia, but not recognised 

 by subsequent authors, Purpura glirina Blainville, and Buccinum 

 discolor Kiener, which seem suspiciously like the above.* 



Pisania delicatula Sowerby. 



Pisania delicatula Sowerby, Journ. of Malac, viii., 1901, p. 101, 

 PL 9, fig. 2. 



This was described as from "Bird Island, South Pacific," To 

 show how insufficient a direction this is, I remark that there are no 

 less than ten Bird Islands off the Australian coast. From the type 

 of P. delicatula in the British Museum, I matched the species as a 

 rare shell from East Australia. I suppose that the type-locality is 

 Bird Island, near Newcastle, N. S. Wales, in S. lat. 33° 15 y . It 

 also occurs at the Bunker Group, South Queensland. 



Phos terebra Sowerby. 



Phos terebra Sowerby, Thes. Conch., iii., 1859, p. 92, PL 222, 

 figs. 28, 29. 



This species was originally described from Sydney, but has never 

 been seen by any subsequent collector, and should be rejected as 

 exotic. In the British Museum there are two, probably types, but 



*Blainville, Nouv. Ann. Mus. i., 1832, p.254, PI. xii., fig.9; Kiener, 

 Coq. Viv., Buccinum, 1834, p. 28, PL ii., fig. 39. 



